SHUM 4997

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SHUM 4997
Pygmalion: Aesthetics of Touch

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"Please Do Not Touch" is one of the signs we are most accustomed to seeing in art museums, yet the very need to make this request demonstrates how objects often invite, seek, even demand that we transgress the limits of vision and engage with them physically. In the Pygmalion myth, the artist's creating hand and the viewer's desire to touch come together in a fantasy of union with the object that has been endlessly appropriated and reimagined in later Western culture. Focusing on Classical art, this course explores the role of touch and embodiment in the viewing and reception of art objects, drawing on ancient models of sense-perception as well as 20th Century theorists such as Reigl, Berenson and Merleau-Ponty.  

When Offered Spring.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4956, CLASS 4602, VISST 4956

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17026 SHUM 4997   SEM 001

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